Amid all the complaining and bragging about who was ranked higher than who when it was published last week, some women on Twitter like Nat Guest pointed out that "only one woman made it into the top 20 at all."

That honour went to...

With the number of by unemployed women in the UK up 32,000 to 1.2 million, it's not unreasonable to conclude that women are being squeezed in the jobs market.

Figures for October to December last year show not only that unemployment among women is at its highest for 23 years,...

Forced underground by the Saudi authorities, the Women 2 Drive campaign is back and appears to have won concessions from the country's King.

Using Twitter and Facebook, the campaign attracted worldwide attention last year when it called on women who held an international driver's licence to...

We can expect more "amazing struggles" around the world in the next few years according to Gene Sharp, the man credited with the non-violent strategy behind the toppling of governments from Serbia to Egypt.

Events in the Arab world over the past year have showed that "the genie is out...

The recent wave of arrests of journalists and bloggers in Iran is a worrying sign of a government crackdown ahead of parliamentary elections in March.

Parastoo Dokouhaki a journalist and women's rights activist, who was one of the first women bloggers in Iran, and journalist Marzieh Rasouli were arrested on...

Nearly a year after Egyptians took to the streets in an uprising that led to the overthrow of president Hosni Mubarak, it is time for the army to return to barracks and have nothing more to do with the running of the country, the writer Ahdaf Soueif said at

After a year when popular movements swept across the Arab world, it's maybe not surprising that the number of people using Facebook and Twitter in the region has shot up.

There were 36,016,664 Facebook users in Arab countries by November 2011 - almost double the number in the same month...

The emergence of Islamic identity is just one of the potential threats to women's status in the wake of the Arab Spring according to Iranian-born Sussan Tahmasebi who is working to pass on the lessons learnt by the women's movement in her native Iran.

The strengthening of Islam, division...

The Afghan Conference that begins today in Bonn could prove to be crucial for the future of women in Afghanistan.

Yet there are very few women among the 900 delegates taking part in the talks that mark the anniversary of the 2001 Bonn Conference, when Hamid Karzai was appointed president...

While for many in the West the revolution in Egypt came out of the blue, for some, like the Egyptian writer and feminist Dr Nawal El Saadawi, the events that took place are the culmination of decades of work and longing for change.

"I've been waiting for it since...